Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

William Yerazunis is a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Team Lead at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He received the B.S., M.Eng, and Ph.D degrees in Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in 1978, 1979, and 1987, respectively. Since then, he has worked in a number of fields including optics, machine vision, and signal processing (for General Electric's jet engine manufacturing); computer graphics (at Rensselaer's Center for Interactive Computer Graphics); artificial intelligence and parallel symbolic computation (at Rensselaer); radioastronomy and SETI ( at Harvard University), transplant immunology (for the American Red Cross), virtual and augmented reality, realtime physical and chemical sensing, and ubiquitous computing (for Mitsubishi Electric), and realtime statistical categorization of texts (the CRM114 Discriminator anti-spam system). He is also a Visiting Scientist at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland. He has appeared on numerous educational television shows, holds 35 U.S. patents, sports an Erdos number of three, a Kevin Bacon number of three, holds FCC ham radio Extra class and Commercial Broadcast/radar engineer licenses, and was voted one of the 50 most powerful people in networking by NetworkWorld magazine in 2006.